Somkiat Chantra

... substituting in.

Nakagami actually had a really great race in Austria, and he was substituting in for Joan Mir, who's still out, but now, um, Somkat Chantra, who's from World Superbike, and is Thai, so another nice bit of Asian representation while we're on the flyaways-

Mm-hmm

... will be substituting in for Mir, while Nakagami does wild card.

So something to keep an eye on, for sure.

Yeah, yeah.

And it's nice, 'cause Chantra was a rookie last year and had a abysmal season.

Um, but he's, he's been over in World Superbike, and so it'll be nice for him to get to be back on a MotoGP again, uh, MotoGP grid again, even if it is just for, you know...

We've already seen it with Ika coming in on a, you know, Grissini and putting it like P8 at Silverstone, you know, really doing well.

And I think the more the guys go back to World Superbike, it's just going to prove, you know, Oliveira, you know, Chanterelle.

Now you've got... protrude she got bender and now Miller I think it's only going to raise the rider

market up and

So they need to show that they can, that they can learn from that.

I'll be interested to see who ends up working with Jake next year as his crew chief, who's alongside him as well, because, you know, you look at it, Chantra, they still have an option on his contract for next year.

But if Honda keep Chantra for another season, it just doesn't show the ambition to push that project forward, and I think that that's what's gonna be key to see what happens there.

Just for a little bit further up the grid, Gordo, as well, I thought one of the, the big standout performances we saw from the weekend, Bemota and Alex Lowes.

We were able to see Alex have two top five finishes in the first two races and then crashed out of, uh, crashed out of the Sunday race then with, uh, the possibility of maybe being on the podium, but said that he was just trying to push a little bit harder to try and get that chance.